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Astropy Paper III: To be published with the next LTS release of astropy core (v5.0, Fall 2021)
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Minor updates to Future Plans section #64

Closed nmearl closed 2 years ago

nmearl commented 2 years ago

Minor word flow update. Also, I found the reverse magma colormap really counter-intuitive (my mind wanted to associate "brighter" with "more activity"), so I suggested reversing it, but it's a personal preference.

adrn commented 2 years ago

I think the colormap direction is a subjective question :) - In my own style guide (missing link), I think of "more ink" as "more things." That is, when a page is a light color (like white), I personally think that higher values should get more visual weight, because those are typically the things you want to emphasize.

pllim commented 2 years ago

Should we take out the colormap change as a separate PR and get the text stuff in?

bmerry commented 2 years ago

I also found the colormap direction non-intuitive.

nmearl commented 2 years ago

I personally think that higher values should get more visual weight, because those are typically the things you want to emphasize.

Agreed! But I suppose the difference is that "visual weight" for me is the thing that stimulates the eye the most -- and since light, bright values trigger your visual sensors more, its visual weight is higher.

Anecdotally, I enjoy dark mode in most things, because I feel the bright content is easier to focus on and distinguish. Likewise, as an astronomer, I think we're trained to some degree to view "bright" things as "things that are of interest".

But honestly, it's the contrast that matters more. I'm sure people will realize that there's certainly not a huge contingent of astropy contributors living in Antarctica. 😆

adrn commented 2 years ago

OK let's discuss the colormap question in a discussion point - can you raise it @nmearl?